Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

Summary:

These data from the 1990 Census comprise a sample of
households with at least one person 60 years and older, plus a sample
of persons 60 years and older in group quarters. The data are grouped
into housing variables and person variables. Housing variables include
area type, state and area of residence, farm/nonfarm status, type of
structure, year structure was built, vacancy and boarded-up status,
number of rooms and bedrooms, presence or absence of a telephone,
presence or absence... (more info)

These data from the 1990 Census comprise a sample of
households with at least one person 60 years and older, plus a sample
of persons 60 years and older in group quarters. The data are grouped
into housing variables and person variables. Housing variables include
area type, state and area of residence, farm/nonfarm status, type of
structure, year structure was built, vacancy and boarded-up status,
number of rooms and bedrooms, presence or absence of a telephone,
presence or absence of complete kitchen and plumbing facilities, type
of sewage facilities, type of water source, type of heating fuel used,
property value, tenure, year moved into house/apartment, type of
household/family, type of group quarters, household language, number of
persons in the household, number of persons and workers in the family,
status of mortgage, second mortgage, and home equity loan, number of
vehicles available, household income, sales of agricultural products,
payments for rent, mortgage and property tax, condominium fees, mobile
home costs, and cost of electricity, water, heating fuel, and
flood/fire/hazard insurance. Person variables cover age, sex,
relationship to householder, educational attainment, school enrollment,
race, Hispanic origin, ancestry, language spoken at home, citizenship,
place of birth, year of immigration, place of residence in 1985,
marital status, number of children ever born, military service,
mobility and personal care limitation, work limitation status,
employment status, occupation, industry, class of worker, hours worked
last week, weeks worked in 1989, usual hours worked per week, temporary
absence from work, place of work, time of departure for work, travel
time to work, means of transportation to work, total earnings, total
income, wages and salary income, farm and nonfarm self-employment
income, Social Security income, public assistance income, retirement
income, and rent, dividends, and net rental income.

Study Description

Citation

U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING, 1990 [UNITED STATES]: PUBLIC USE MICRODATA SAMPLE: 3-PERCENT ELDERLY SAMPLE. ICPSR version. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census [producer], 1994. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1995. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06219.v1

Universe:
All households with at least one person 60 years and older,
plus all persons 60 and older residing in group quarters.

Data Types:
census data

Data Collection Notes:

(1) Parts 1 through 80 are revised files released by
the Census Bureau in 1994. (2) The data are organized in a two-level
hierarchy comprising housing records and person records. Housing
records contain 114 variables. Person records have 125 variables. Each
occupied housing unit is represented by a single housing record
followed by one or more person records, one for each person in the
household. Vacant housing units are represented by a single housing
record without any attendant person records. Each person residing in
group quarters is represented by a single housing record followed by a
single person record. (3) Appendix G of the codebook (PUMS maps) is
available only in hardcopy form upon request from ICPSR. (4) Public Use
Microdata Areas (PUMAs) are documented in Part 84. Planning and Service
Areas (PSAs) are documented in Part 85.

Methodology

Sample:
Stratified random sample.

Data Source:

self-enumerated questionnaires

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1996-02-12

Version History:

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 83 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 82 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 81 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 80 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.